After years of being disappointed by lilac bushes that produce great, healthy-looking foliage but no flowers, it appears I finally have a variety that blooms every year — at least two in a row. 🙂 I have no idea whether it’s the type of lilac, the quality or the placement or if it’s just a […]
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So happy to see the yard come to life! The trees and flowers are blooming! I’ve got a great crop of daffodils this year. Some tulips have started, but a few must’ve got nipped at just the wrong time and they’ve shriveled away. I love looking outside and seeing color around the yard. Always puts
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Now that I am a grandmother, I have been recalling times I spent with my grandmothers. My maternal grandmother began teaching me to sew when I was quite young. I was probably still in preschool when we began my sewing lessons. My grandmother had kept an old doll of my mother’s, and when I visited,
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So, someone dies. You send a small plant to the family. Every wonder what happens to them? These little gems were sent to me when my mother died–20 years ago. In a few years they grew too tall for the house, so I bought the biggest pots I could find and gave them new dirt.
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Jonquils don’t have good sense. They come up every year before the snow stops flying. Maybe this year we’ll skip the snow so they can bask in warm spring breezes–maybe. Sally JadlowSally Jadlow writes historical fiction, inspirational articles, poetry, and short stories. She teaches the beginning writers for Kansas City Writers Group. Her books are
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WHITE POTATOES WHITE POTATOES February 28, 2023 Sally Jadlow Comments 0 Comment A few weeks ago I talked about growing sweet potatoes. They’re still sitting in the dirt, doing nothing. https://sallyjadlow.com/growing-sweet-potatoes/ I planted some white potatoes which had sprouted eyes at the same time. These little plants are going crazy. I had to put them in bigger containers. Potatoes aren’t
Our adorable cat Safa sometimes serves as a muse for my writing. Juliet KincaidA teacher of writing at the college level for 35 years, Juliet now works as an indie author. To date, she has published four novels and a collection of short pieces in her Calendar Mystery Series that tell the story of business
On the 3rd of July I lost my new earring. It wasn’t an expensive gem, but I really liked that it was lightweight and pretty. I checked online and bought what I thought was a duplicate. It wasn’t. In retracing my steps from that day, I knew it had to be somewhere in the house
I am sooo glad to be almost a week into the shortest month of the year. I can’t wait for longer days without gloves and scarves and coats. We’ve had a surprisingly warm weekend, so I went out and poked around in the yard a bit today. And was cheered to see signs of spring.
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I happened on a website the other day telling you how to grow 50-100 pounds of sweet potatoes from one sweet potato. I decided to try it. I bought a plastic tub from Walmart with a lid and some potting soil. The sweet potatoes are to be covered half way into the dirt and watered
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